History and chronology of Anschluss in Germany

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Goering, Herman
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Anschluss History of Germany


1938	Goering, Herman
26th Mar Herman Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria
1938	Guderian, Heinz
12th Mar Commands the 2nd Panzer Division through Linz to Vienna during the Anscluss
1938	Hess, Rudolph
25th Jan Austrian police raid the Committee of Seven Vienna HQ
25th Jan Documents are found signed by Hess clearing an Austrian Nazi revolt in the Spring
1938	Hitler, Adolf
12th Feb Berlin Hitler orders the Austrian Chancellor to to hand over control of his government
12th Feb Berlin Informs the Austrian Chancellor to hand control over to the Nazis
20th Feb Berlin Promises to support the rights of Germans not living in the Reich in the Reichstag
9th Mar Kurt Schuschnigg defies the Nazis & calls for a referendum on independence
10th Mar Berlin Decides on military occupation before Schuschnigg's plebiscite of March 13th
11th Mar Austrian Nazis in government appeal to Hitler to restore order
11th Mar Austrian Nazis take to the streets in Austria & appeal to Hitler to restore order
11th Mar Berlin Makes an ultimatum to Schuschnigg forbidding his referendum on union with Germany
11th Mar Mussolini indicates that he will not intervene to save Austria
12th Mar Linz German troops occupy Austria which then becomes a Dominion of the Third Reich
12th Mar Germany invades Austria after the Austrian Nazi Party invite German troops to march in and the union becomes the Anschluss
12th Mar Vienna Orders Stuckart to Vienna to organize anshcluss n defiance of the Versailles treaty
12th Mar Berlin Orders Wihelm Stuckart to Vienna to draft a law making him President of Austria
12th Mar Linz Proclaims the union of Austria with Germany
14th Mar Berlin Chamberlain anounces in the Commons that nothing could have stopped the anshcluss
14th Mar Berlin Makes a triumphal entry into Vienna, where he had lived so long as a tramp
April Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna meets with Hitler and then directs all Catholic clergy and laity to "unconditionally support the great German State and the Fuhrer"
10th April 99.08% of Austrians & Germans vote in favour of the Anscluss
1938	Hupfauer, Theo
Sent into Austria to set up Worker's Front organizations
1938	Stuckart, Wihelm
12th Mar Berlin Ordered by Hitler to Vienna to organize a total anshcluss